Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British museum (Natural history) ...

The distribution, abundance and trends in the establishment of the family schilbeidae (osteichthyes: siluriformes) in Lake Kainji, Nigeria

“…auritus, is confined to a few rivers above the equator and mostly in West Africa . It is recorded in Rivers Niger, Nile and Volta by Boulenger (1911) and in the Lake Chad basins by Daget and Iltis (19 5) . Such distribution confirms the suggestion that the headwaters of these rivers and lake might have been once connected during the geological period .…”

“…Apart from the Nile, it seems that it is limited to West African waters . Its presence has been recorded in Rivers Niger and Nile (Boulenger, 1911), Benue (Blache,19 4), and Queme (Daget, 1954) and in the following Lakes, Chad (Boulenger, 1911), Volta (Roberts,19 7) and Kossou (Roest, 1975), Eutropius niloticus has a much wider distribution than the two previous species . It is found in Nilo-Sudan, Zaire and East coast provinces .…”

“…It is found in Nilo-Sudan, Zaire and East coast provinces . It has been reported in Rivers Senegal, Niger and Nile (Boulenger, 1911), Gambia, Volta and Queme (Daget & Iltis,19 5) and Semiliki (Greenwood, 1957) and in Lakes Albert and Chad (Boulenger, 1911) and in Lake Nasser (Latif,197 ) . Whereas E. niloticus is not common in East African waters, its related species e .g.…”

“…It is found in most large African rivers and lakes . It is present in the rivers Gambia, Niger, Nile, Zaire and Zambezi (Boulenger, 1911) Kubango, Logone and Semiliki (Mok, 1971) and Queme, Senegal and Volta (Daget & Iltis,19 5) . It has also been recorded in the following lakes, Albert, Bangwenlu, Chad, Nweru and Victoria (Boulenger, 1911), Volta (Robert, 19 7), Ngami 7 7 ZONES I II III IV Catch per unit effort Sampling Stations A C N D K J L G H M 0 Number of Samples 9 11 9 9 12 12 12 12 8 10 8 1 II III (Daget & Iltis,19 5) Rukwa, Upemba and Moero (Mok, 1974), Kariba (Balon, 1974) and Kossou (Roest, 1975) .…”

Food and feeding of three Distichodus species (Pisces: Characiformes) in Lake Kainji, Nigeria

“…The fish genus Distichodus Muller et Troschel is typical of tropical African freshwaters (Boulenger 1909). Distichodus brevipinnis and D. rostratus are widely distributed in Africa (Daget 1959).…”